Earth Quotes by Arthur C. Clarke

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

— Arthur C. Clarke

The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

The phenomenon of UFO doesn't say anything about the presence of intelligence in space. It just shows how rare it is here…

— Arthur C. Clarke

A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a…

— Arthur C. Clarke

We always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that…

— Arthur C. Clarke

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles. . . . It won't be…

— Arthur C. Clarke

One orbit, with a radius of 42,000 kilometers, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if…

— Arthur C. Clarke

The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life - much less intelligence - beyond this Earth does…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered. When our race has reached…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Every age has its dreams, its symbols of romance. Past generations were moved by the graceful power of the great windjammers, by…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might…

— Arthur C. Clarke

There's a passage about 'rivers of molten rock that wound their way... until they cooled and lay like twisted dragon-shapes vomited from…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew…Mars…

— Arthur C. Clarke

It will be possible in a few more years to build radio controlled rockets which can be steered into such orbits beyond…

— Arthur C. Clarke

The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The…

— Arthur C. Clarke